ISLAMABAD: July 1: People representatives, civil society activists, students and citizens of Ghazi Tehsil have threatened to resist a Ghazi-Barotha project that will supply project to the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A committee, headed by a local town nazim, has also been formed to organise the movement with an aim to ensure adequate drinking water supply to the residents of Ghazi Tehsil. They were gathered at a consultation meeting organised by the Sungi Development Foundation at Ghazi Tehsil of Haripur the other day. The government has chalked out an integrated water supply scheme of GBWSP for twin cities with uniform basis of consumption of 60 gallons per capita per day of water. According to a news release issued here Sunday after a meeting organized by Sungi Development Foundation, the participants opposed the Rs 45 billion Ghazi Barotha Water Supply Project (GBWSP). The government has directed Wapda and the CDA to come up with a comprehensive report to determine the suitable sites for off-take of drinking water for twin cities from Tarbela Dam reservoir or Ghazi Pond. The speakers were of the view that majority population of Ghazi Tehsil of district Haripur were suffering from severe drinking water scarcity, despite the fact that the town was situated nearby country's largest reservoir-Tarbela Dam and Ghazi Barotha Water Channel. On the other hand, they said the government had devised a plan to supply bulk water to twin cities by taking the urban centered development approach. The meeting was attended by Tariq Iqbal, UC Nazim KhairBara, Habib Khan, UC Nazim Kazipur, tehsil councillors Javed Gill, Nazkat Khan and others, zonal incharge Sungi, Nadir Shah and Shaur Iqbal, representatives of Hashar organisation, Aurat Foundation and of concern village committees. The speakers pointed out that a filtration plant under Clean Drinking Water Initiative (CDWI) was installed last year but it never became operational. The speakers observed that the government had failed to achieve its targets across the country through CDWI project and now the plan had been extended by installing filtration plants at UC level under Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) project. "The CDWA project might face the same fate like CDWI because the project has been conceptualised in Islamabad without taking into account the ground realities of the area," they said. They regretted that were never consulted before initiating the project and plants are being installed with the choice of local political influential ignoring the need of a particular area. Planners believe that Rs 45 billion GBWSP was the only remedy not only to overcome the current water scarcity, but to cater the water needs of the two cities for next 50 years. The current requirement of the two cities is 230 million gallons per day.